land reform in zimbabwe

HARARE - A motion tabled in the Zimbabwean Parliament has reignited the debate on land tenure, with legislators passionately outlining the historical injustices that continue to cast a long shadow over the country's land ownership. The…
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By Eddie Cross From 1980 when we achieved Independence, to 1997, the agricultural industry in Zimbabwe not only recovered from the years of war and economic sanctions but grew steadily and was the largest single contributor to the…
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Outspoken MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has claimed that the fast track land reform programme conducted in early 2000 has been reduced to being a "joke" by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s under-fire administration.
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By Hopewell Chin’ono The Zimbabwe land reform process started happening in 2000, and it is still an on going process eighteen years later. It had to be done at some point although it was unnecessarily violent, chaotic and corrupt, but…
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By Zvamaida Murwira The fast-track land reform programme has run its course with the exhaustion of new farms for acquisition amid indications that further allocations can only be done after the envisaged land audit reveals how much land…
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By Eddie Cross When the ruling Party, Zanu PF lost the referendum in February 2000 and then nearly lost the elections to the Lower House that same year, they appreciated for the first time that they were in a real struggle for power and…
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By Ndakaziva Majaka Government last week announced it was going to repossess land owned by wines and spirits maker African Distillers (Afdis) and 22 other white-owned farms, a move analysts have condemned as ill-informed and likely to…
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Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has ordered the nation’s remaining white farmers to be booted off their farms in order that the land be given to black Zimbabweans.
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Beneficiaries of the controversial land reform exercise will soon be expected to pay rent for their farms as part of ZANU PF party’s alternative methods of raising funds.
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It is very refreshing to finally hear some down to earth facts about land redistribution in Zimbabwe and Lands and Resettlement minister Douglas Mombeshora is to be congratulated in this regard.
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